Munis

Orrick announced the admission of Marc Bauer in Los Angeles, Barbara League in Houston, and John Stanley in San Francisco to its partnership.

KPC Group has agreed to be a stalking horse bidder for Verity Health System's remaining four hospitals.

BondWave’s Municipal AA QCurve is among four third-party yield curves on MSRB’s EMMA site.

Palos Health signed a letter of intent to explore joining Loyola Health, which is owned by nonprofit healthcare giant Trinity Health.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy vetoed a toll increase that would have supported bond-financed capital improvements.

Rating agencies don't expect major impacts to state and local governments from the troubled California utility's pending bankruptcy.

A trader said lack of follow-through on long new issues continued to plague the market as the weekly calendar shrank to $5B of issuance.

The legislation would leverages $8 billion in federal investment into $226 billion worth of bond authority over the next 10 years.

Hilltop Securities, the Southwest region's top financial advisor, is hiring and restructuring management two years after a difficult merger with Southwest Securities.

The municipal bond market is prepping for around $5 billion of new issuance in the upcoming holiday-shortened week.

Indian River County filed an appeal and a new lawsuit against the private owners of Brightline.

Altscher, a partner at Miles & Stockbridge in Baltimore for almost 40 years, was considered by his peers to be one of the nation’s top municipal finance tax lawyers.

Capital finance director David Erdman says VRDO fraud lawsuits piqued his interest in Clarity's platform.

Dealers want to change some of the language in the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Rule G-17 interpretive guidance.

While the municipal bond insurers suffered from the curtailment of issuance under newly effective U.S. tax laws, the insurance penetration rate ticked higher.

The top municipal FA's accounted for 20% less volume, as their par amount of deals handled dropped to $273.869 billion from $345.829 billion. The number of transactions fell by 1,199.

The top muni bond counsel firms accounted for $318.67 billion in 8,474 transactions in 2018, down from $407.47 billion in 10,519 deals the year before.

Kristin Caid, a public finance attorney specializing in healthcare, joined Norton Rose Fulbright after 18 years at Kutak Rock.

Municipal bond issuance totaled $320.25 billion in 2018, as New York issuers led the charge.

Municipal bond underwriters suffered from muted issuance under the new tax laws, as Bank of America Merrill Lynch remained on top of the year-end rankings.